Welcome! As the mother of two life-long vegan (grown-up) children, I'd love to share with you what our family has learned on our journey to raise thoughtful, healthy, kind, think-for-themselves children, committed to doing their part to make the world a better place. My Resources page has hundreds of links to health, environmental and social justice articles, videos and books. My blog has my thoughts and musings related to these as well. Below you will find​video clips of me speaking on different subjects, and pictures with links to my favorite recipes. Look around -- I hope you will find much here to inspire and inform.

Vegan in Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas is a great little city with amazing people, who speak out on many social justice issues, and I am working to raise awareness here thatthe main benefit of veganism is the ripple effect that results each time one of us stands firmly in solidarity with justice, nonviolence and compassion. This inspires those around us to consider their own choice of where to stand. Every major human caused tragedy that has ever plagued the world, was enabled to occur for one main reason: Human beings have the capacity to ignore injustice happening to those we have been taught to, “otherize”. Throughout human history, no group has been more victimized and exploited by this phenomenon than the non-human beings that we eat, hunt, experiment on, wear and use for our entertainment.

VIDEOS OF ME SPEAKING:

Here is a five minute interview with me, where you can hear my main schtick in a nutshell. The segment with me begins at about 6:30 minutes into the video.

Below, is a segment from my latest talk , "10 Incidents that Inspired: Writer as activist." This is a 23 minute clip of my presentation exploring how my working for Merck and The Merc enabled me to recognize the fundamental challenge facing humanity, and how this influenced me.

And here is a full hour lecture I gave in Mississippi, addressing the issue of gluten and why it is of such importance today.

My second book, Get Off Gluten, explains how and why our family got off gluten and contains all the ---> recipes I created to help us make that transition. A video of me speaking on the subject of gluten is HERE, and contains information you probably have not heard before.

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